Delighted to have a new article, co-authored with Lize Yang, published in @chinaquarterly.bsky.social

We examine how aggressive journalistic questioning may have fueled the rise of China's "wolf warrior diplomacy". The article is open access. Feel free to dive in! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

My paper, published in @coco-journal.bsky.social, demonstrates the relevance of operational claims for IO legitimation. I focus on one common type of operational claim-making whereby IOs invoke tradeoffs between norms to account for perceived legitimacy deficits. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

When studying IO legitimation, we often focus on normative claims, which emphasize IO legitimacy warrants by asserting IO governance is congruent with established norms, to the exclusion of operational claims, which aim to justify IOs' legitimacy deficits.